Yun Xu received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, in 2002. He is currently a Professor and a supervisor of Ph.D. students with the School of Computer Science of USTC, a member of National High Performance Computing Center at Hefei. Now, he is leading a group of research students in some high-performance computing and bioinformatics research. His research interests include code analysis and search, biological sequence analysis and mining, parallel algorithms, and parallel programming model and performance optimization. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 papers.